Word Meanings - REPEATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
Additional info about word: REPEATING
Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially: A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired. A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine. -- Repeating instruments , instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation. -- Repeating watch. See Repeater
Related words: (words related to REPEATING)
- THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - THEBAIC
Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version. - DOWNWEED
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. - THIRSTILY
In a thirsty manner. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - THERMALLY
In a thermal manner. - THORN-HEADED
Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. - DOWNPOUR
A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. - THRASH; THRESH
derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of with a flail; to beat off, - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - DONATOR
One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver. - THEBAN
Of or pertaining to Thebes. Theban year , the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours. J. Bryant. - DOG-ROSE
A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - DOG'S-EAR
The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - ADONAI
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai". - LETHARGIC; LETHARGICAL
Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. -- Le*thar"gic*al*ly, v. -- Le*thar"gic*al*ness, n. -- Le*thar"gic*ness, n. - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller. - PROGNATHIC
Prognathous. - AETHER
See ETHER - ANTHEMIS
Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants. - DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. - FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - PANTHER
A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoölogists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.